Villalta v. Schechter

The defendant moved for summary judgment based upon the affirmed reports of her expert-doctors stating that the plaintiff suffered no permanent injury, and the unsworn report of a magnetic resonance imaging (hereinafter MRI) examination, diagnosing a “posterior bulging of the L4-5 disc annulus without impingement on the L5 nerve roots,” and a “reversal of the normal cervical lordosis from C2 - *301C6.” Dr. Alexander Rimalovski determined that the findings in the MRI reports were “not causally related to the accident.” Dr. Frank M. Hudak merely recited the MRI findings without further explanation,…